Three fights confirmed. UFC Belfast is slowly getting its act together.
It all started when Ray Borg pulled out of his scheduled UFC 203 fight with Ian McCall at the 11th hour.
'Uncle Creepy' had been denied a decent pay-day but he was fit, firing a ready to go.
https://twitter.com/arielhelwani/status/773877955042902016
Neil Seery is game as f**k. In fact, he says so himself.
https://twitter.com/NeilSeeryMMA/status/773924456989396992
With both parties willing, ready and able, there was little bucking back or forth as a fight contracts were drawn up.
McCall was getting offers, and call-outs, from other fighters but he stuck to his word and will meet 'Two Tap' at UFC Belfast in November.
https://twitter.com/NeilSeeryMMA/status/778158921303359488
Seery's last visit to the octagon saw him defeated by flyweight tile challenger Kyoji Horiguchi, in May.
His bout with McCall will be on the main card of an event headlined by Gunnar Nelson's welterweight bout against No.10 ranked Dong Hyun Kim.
We review a crazy All-Ireland final and chat to Lee Keegan about his special relationship with Diarmuid Connolly. Listen below or subscribe here on iTunes.
BREAKING Former UFC star Godofredo Pepey has been found dead in a Florida prison aged 38. The Brazilian MMA fighter, whose real name is Godofredo Castro de Oliveira, was in prison awaiting trial after he was accused of domestic violence towards his wife Samara Mello. He was arrested in June of this year. According to […]
It’s believed to have been a targeted attack. Former UFC fighter , Suman Mokhtarian, has been shot dead. The ex-MMA fight was shot in a ‘brazen’ and ‘targeted’ daylight attack while taking an early evening walk, reports the Sydney Morning Herald. Mokhtarian was shot in the upper body and was unable to be revived by […]
“I invite you and your whole team and family to Dagestan.” Derry’s Paul Hughes suffered the second MMA defeat of his career in Dubai on Saturday. Usman Nurmagomedov’s Bellator Lightweight World Championship belt was on the line in what was the top-billed fight in the PFL Champions Series 1 event. Hughes was a big underdog […]